The Sun. — London, England, 1864-04-22 00:00:00

General Garibaldi, Yesterday morni❑g the members of the Reform Club had the honour of entertaining the great Italian General at, luncheon in the large saloon of the club. The fact of his intended visit appeared to be well known, and a large crowd collected to see Garibaldi pass down Pall-mall. The entrance to the club and the saloon were filled with ladies who wished to see the great guest as he proceeded to the banquet, while in the room where the de. jeuner was laid M. Jullien's band was stationed, with the leaders of the chorus of Her Majesty's Theatre. The room was beautifully decorated, and when the company, to the number of 200, were seated the scene was exceedingly animated. Lord Ebury presided, and at the conclusion of the repast, end when the customary and loyal toasts had been given with all the honours, he gave the health of the guest of the day, amid loud and continued cheer, ing. In proposing the toast Lord Ebury said, — We, gentlemen, are assembled together because we are admirers of liberty, and we are so because we believe that liberty promotes the best interests of mankind. We believe also that one of the greatest curses that can befall a coun try is war, and, therefore, we are promoters of peace. But there is oae curse that we think is even more terrible than war, and that is despotism, whether it be a de spotism of Kings, of Lords, or of Commons ; and if there were cause we should be as ready as our ancestors to draw the sword and shed our blood in defence of the principles of our country. We have, therefore, General,watched your ca • reer from its commencement to its zenith. Judge for your self, General, what our feelings may be when we see him of whom we have heard so much bodily in our presence. (Cheers.) There is one quality which I hope I may venture to claim for my countrymen, and that is that we are a reli gi pus people. By that I mean that we believe that there is a superintending Providence over all things both in heaven and on earth, It was, therefore, General, our first act,when we heard of your great deeds, to offer up thanksgiving to the Great Almighty that he had been pleased to raise up such a man to perform such deeds. But this, General, does not prevent us from honouring the instrument on earth. (Cheers.) Far from it. The same book which inapires the former sentiment tells us to give honour to whom honour is due. Thus it is, General, that you have received that con tinual, hearty, and enthusiastic welcome which scarcely, I fear, leaves you time for repose, but which may, perhaps, fatiguing as it is, have afforded you some little compensa tion for the life of toil, of danger, and suffering which you have undergone for your country, and which also may make a little compensation for some apparent ingratitude from a quarter whence that ingratitude was least to be expected. (Hear.) But, sir,what generous mind would not appreciate, how much more then your own would not duly appreciate, the spontaneous:applause of a free, happy, and a Christian people ? (Hear, hear.) General, I have but a few more re marks to make—forgive me if I am obliged to address them somewhat personally. You have displayed very rare, very daring, and very unusual qualities for your country's good, How many examples are there of men who have struggled ardently, who have fought and bled for their country, who have endured reverses and sufferings with unshaken forti tude, but who, when the time of prosperity came, have lost their equilibrium, sullied their fair fames, and done irreparable injury to the enterprise in which they first em barked I You, General, have shown that you have the power of self-denial in whatever position you may be• (Cheers.) I believe that history affnids no example of a man whose constancy has been so tried. What it has ccst you, General, to resist the many temptations that have come to you no one but yourself can know; but we owe yen a debt of gratitude for having given the world such a name as yours. (Cheers.) We regret that we must no longer prolong the pleasure which your presence here causes us. We know, alas I that your stay in this country is numbered not by days, but by lours. (No, no, no,) At all events you have much to du. (I,Lear; hear, and cheers.) But I will say, on the part of thou gentlemen whom I have the honour to re present, that our heart's desire is that it may please God to watch over your health and grant you a speedy recovery, in order that you may be enabled to devote the influence of Sour good name and your powers to that cause which is as yet far from ichieved—(prolonged cheere)—a cause that will require all the perseverance, all the courage, all the counsel, all the wisdom of all the patriotic children of your country—th a t cause for which you era ready to lay down your life—the salvation and regeneration of Ital) (Pro longed cheering.) I propose the health of our illustrious guest. The toast was then drunk amid great cheering, 'which continued for some minutes. When it hetd subsided the chorus of her Majesty's Theatre, led by Signor Arditi, sang the Garibaldi Hymn with beautiful precision and effect. At its conclusion Garibaldi rose, amid prolonged applause, and said : My Lords and Gentlemen,--My gratitude to }ou for the great sympathy you have for me I think is very great ; but I cannot express my feelings of gratitude for your kind sympathy to my poor country. (The members here cheered, and then came a pause for some minutes). lam almost an Englishman now—(cheers repeated)—and certainly I am very proud to be so, and I invite you to a toast—" To the prosperity of my adopted country ;" and I pray you to eceive my thanks for your kindness. Never in my life will I forget the kindness I have received in this illustrious associwion. The " Health of the President" was next proposed by Mr. Gore Langton, M.P., to which Lord Ebury made a brief response, which brought the proceed ings to a close. General Garibaldi was then escorted from the club by the President, the Duke of Suther land, and the principal members of the club. He was warmly received by the company in the saloon, and loudly cheered by the crowd us he left and returned along Pall Mall. The General visited the House of Commons yes terday afternoon, accompanied by Mr. Seely. He sat on the front bench under the gallery. Of course, there was no expression of feeling, although for some minutes he was the observed of all observers. After remaining about a quarter of an hour, he pro ceeded to the House of Lords. The General was conducted by Sir Augustus Clifford, bearing the Black Rod, through the Peers' library and the private apartments of the Gentleman Usher, and afterwards entered the House of Lords accompanied by the Earl of Shaftesbury. He was led by Sir A. Clifford to the space within the railing at the foot of the Throne. He bowed slightly to their lord- ships, and afterwards shook hands with the Bishop of Oxford]and the Earl of Harrowby. Earl Russell left the Treasury Bench, and, after warmly greeting the General, engaged him for a few moments in conversation. The General did not remain in the House of Peers more than five minutes, and then proceeded to the Prince's Chamber, the sculpture and portraits in which he passed a few minutes in examining. On leaving the Houses of Parliament the General returned to his carriage and took the route over Westminster Bridge to Fishmongers' In the evening the Company of Fishmongers entertained the General at dinner in their stately corporate hall at the north end of Louden Bridge, and afterwards conferred upon him the honorary freedom of their order, enclosed in a handsome gold box, studded with precious stones, of the value of 100 guineas. Corers were laid for 130 guests, many of whom were ladies, and the b Impel was served with all the sumptuous magni ficence which has always characterised the hospi tality of the guild of Fishmongers. The D awager buchees of Sutherland, the Duchess of Suther land, the Duke and Duchess of Argyll, and the Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury honoured the company with their presence on the occasion, and among the rest of the visitors were Vice-Chancellor Sir W. Page Wood and L tdy Wood, Sir Rowland and Lady Hill, Lady Easthope, Sir S. M. Peto, M.P, and Lady Peto, Sir Edward Dering, M.P., Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, the Dean of Ripen, :%s3 Cast, and Mrs. Goode, Col. and Mrs. Chambers, c i l , Elsey, Mr. Seely, M.P., and Mrs. Seely, Major Snell, Captain Forbes, R.N., Captain Robert and Mrs. Robert Richardson, Alderman and Miss Lawrence, Mr. e. C. Trevor and Mrs. Trevor, Mr., Mrs, and Miss Wykeham Martin, Mr. D. Loveless and Mrs. Loveless, Mr. Harvey Lewis M.P., and Mrs. Lewis, Mr. J. J. Tweed, IV r. Barnes, M.P., Mr. S. Olding, the Chairman of the Union Society, Mr. and Mrs. P. Northall Laurie, Mr. F. Captain G rant, Mr. Fenton, de- L2izhton, R.A., puty chairman of the Great Western Railway Com pany, and Mr. H. G. Uederclow e . For some time before the General arrived a crowd had assembled in front of the hail to catch a glimpse of him, and on his making his appear ance, which he did shortly after 6 o'clock, he was received at the entrance by the Warden s of the Company, headed by Mr. James Weston , their cub-f, and co n d ucte d to t h e d raw i ng -room, where m ost of the guests had by that time assembled, the band of the Grenadier Guards playing the " Garibaldi Hymn." As usual the General wore the gray capote familiar to all who have seen him in this country and elsewhere. Ahout 7 o'clock the guests sat down to dinner, Which WAS served in the Great Hail, Mr. Weston, the Prime Warden, occupying the chair. The General conducted the Dowager Duchess of Suther land to her seat, and then took his own, which was on the left of her Grace and on the right of the Prime Warden. The Duchess of Sutherland sat immediately on the left of the chair, and the Duke and Duchess of Argyll and the Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury on either hand of the Prime Warden. On the removal of the cloth the Loving Cup was passed round the board, and then the PRIMEIWARDEN gave in succession the toasts of "The Queen" and "The Prince and Princess of Wales, with the rest of the Royal Family," which were received with every mark of respect. The Prince of Wales happens to be an honorary member of the company, and a smile was occasioned by his royal highness being described, in the customary language of the guild, as " our brother fishmonger" on his health being proposed from the chair. The PRIME WARDEN said he had next to propose what was in every sense the toast of the evening— the health of their illustrious guest, Gen. Garibaldi. (Cheers.) Disclaiming all intention to give to their meeting the character of a political demonstration, they desired at the same time to show their appre ciation of the high qualities of the General as a hero, a patriot, and an enlightened and consistent sup porter of liberty in every sense. By the magic of his name alone, greater and more enduring benefits had been achieved for his country than the great Napoleon had ever achieved with all his vast armies. To the General self was nothing, his country every thing, and that was the true secret of his fame. (Hear, hear.) The Prime Warden proceeded to mention a circumstance to the credit of the General, not generally known, he believed, and which had come under his notice last year when in Naples. The General, he said, when Dictator, had presented a site in that city worth about 12,000 on which to build an English church, and the decree confirming the gift, and which was drawn up in his own hand, recited that he had been moved to make the gift in consideration of the generous sympathy evinced by the English people in the cause of Italy. The toast was drunk with acclamation. Gen. GARIBALDI, speaking in English, expressed his gratitude briefly for all the kindness and consi deration shown him by the English people, and particularly for their sympathy with his country. England, he added, was the home of freedom and the hope of slaves in all the world. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY, in responding to the toast of " The honorary members of the Company,'' of whom he is one, said on that occasion honorary membership was converted into a reality when they found it coupled with the illustrious and beloved name of General Garibaldi, of whom for a long time few Englishmen would be able to speak with out emotion, as a man who represented in himself all the virtues and qualities that adorned human nature, and who combined the loftiest and most disinterested patriotism with a simplicity of cha racter and a modesty of demeanour never yet united in one single man. And to what was all that due ? Not simply to commanding intellect, but to what God had given him, an immense and profound heart, or, as was said in Scripture of that of Solomon, " a heart as vast as the sands of the sea." He was happy in having an opportunity to express in public the heartfelt love he entertained for his character, and he would say for the people of England that the name of Garibaldi would be a household word among them for all time. (Cheers.) The PRIME WARDEN, in complimentary terms, then proposed as a toast " The Dowager Duchess of Sutherland, the Duchess of Sutherland, the Duchess of Argyll, and the Ladies," The Duke of ARGYLL, whose name was coupled with the toast, said it had been a source of pride and pleasure to the ladies there as elsewhere to associate themselves with the reception which had bee❑ given by all classes of the people of this coun try to the extraordinary and illustrious man who was their guest that night. That sense of honour and pleasure, he added, was founded on a deep par ticipation on the part of the ladies of this country in both those feelings, which, like two great streams, had resulted in a mighty river, or, as Tennyson ex pressed it, " a perfect tumult of acclaim," first for the completed freedom of the Italian people, and, secondly, for the extraordinary and singularly pure and noble character of the man who had done so much to achieve that freedom. Same of the best ,reits and features of our own national character would have indeed decayed if ever the day came when the entire devotion of such a character to such a cause should cease to elicit from the English people of all ranks tl - e utmost expression of their admiration and their homage. (Cheers.) The toast of " The Visitors" was then drunk, and Vice-Chancellor Sir Page Wood having responded to it, the whole of the company left the Great Hall and proceeded to the drawing-room. There each of the guests were presented to the General, who re ceived them seated, a ceremony which lasted some considerable time. The General then returned with the Prime Warden, Wardens, and Court of Assis tants to the Great Hall, where the honorary freedom of the Company was presented to him, " in testi mony of their appreciation of his exalted patriotism, his distinguished valour, and his eminent services in the cause of civil and religious liberty." The Prime Warden, in a brief address, enumerated the names of many illustrious personages which adorned the Company's roll of honorary citizenship, and he ex pressed the pleasure it now afforded the governing body to add that of the General himself. The docu ment conferring the freedom elegantly emblazoned was contained in a gold box richly chased on all sides. At each corner were stars of diamonds on blue enamelled ground, and in the centre the Fishmongers' arms engraved within a border of blue enamel. It was made by Mr. Hancock of Bruton street. General Garibaldi, in acknowledging the gift, said :—" I am certainly proud to belong to this noble company. I will keep this box as the talis man of my future career in the service of the liberty of the people, and I shall be very grateful to you all my life." With that the ceremony ended, and shortly after wards the General, accompanied by the Dowager Duchess of Sutherland, the Duchess of Sutherland, and the Duke and Duchess of Argyll, took his de• parture, and as he did so was enthusiasticaliy cheered by the crowd outside, Most of the com pany remained afterwards to dance in the Great 1-1,111. The Duke of Sutherland's Screw S teaal Yacht Ondine arrived at Plymouth yesterday morning, and is gone to Millbay to fill up with coal. She will proceed probably to-day, either to Looe or Fowey, to embark Garibaldi f,r conveyance to Caprera after his visit to P4nquite, the scat of Colonel Peard, in Cornwall is concluded. MEETING OF THE WORKING MEN'S COMMITTEE. A special meeting of the Working Men's Exception Com mittee was held last night at the Whittington Club, Mr 11. Gray, mason, in the chair, to consider the final decision of General Garibaldi as to leaving England. About 100 delegates were present, and Messrs Plimsoll, Nicholay, Shaen, Morris. and Taylor attended as a deputation from the City Committee. Mr TAYLOR, a member of the deputation, reported the reply of Garibaldi to the deputation as follows: " Prince's gate, Kensington, April 21. " Dear Friends, —Pray accept my heartfelt thanks for your sympathy and affection. I shall be happy to see you again on a better occasion, when it will be poosible for me to enjoy at leisure the hospitality of your noble country. For the present I feel obliged to leave England. Again and again my gratitude to you all. "Mr J.ltlchardson:" " G, GARII3ALDI, Ile stated that a strong resolution of indignation had be^n adopted by the City Committee on the receipt of that letter, considering that the word used in the letter " obliged," was a convincing proof that undue pressure had been used on the General to hurry his departure. The City Committee were prepared to co-operate with the Working Men's Committee in any action they might take upon the matter. After considerable discussion, in the course of which much indignation was expressed at the course taken by some per son or persons in causing the General to leave Eagland, the following resolutions were unanimously adopted:-- Proposed by Mr POTTER, seconded by Mr GROSSMITII— " That this committee has ascertained that General Garibaldi is in very good health, and that the cause of his intended departure is not illness, but pressure exercised on him by members and adherents of the Government, and especially by Mr Gladstone." Proposed by Mr TIUMLETT, and seconded by Mr PETRERIDGE— " That this committee looks on this attempt of the go verning classes to expel an illustrious guest of the nation as a scandal to this country and a violation of all the principles of freedom; and it repudiates any such culpable subser vience to Royal dictation, at home or abroad." Proposed by Mr, WIEAss, seconded by Mr. MILDRED:— " That this committee resolves on organising a series of public demonstrations to express the indignation of the working men of London at this insult offered to their great representative." Proposed by Mr. POTTER, and seconded by Mr. TRIM LETT : " That the first public meeting be held on Primrose-hill on Saturday afternoon next, at five o'clock." Proposed by Mr. CREMES, and seconded by Mr, ODGERS : " That this committee put itself into communication with all the working men's societies in this metropolis and in dm provinces." A deputation was then appointed to carry a copy of the resolutions to ➢lr. Gladstone at the House of Commons, and copies were also sent to Mr. Seely, M,P,, and to Gen, Garibaldi. The meeting then adjourned. Stratford-on-Avon Tercentenary Festival. STRATFORD-ON•AVON, Wednesday Night, The weather is superb, but visitors have not as yet begun to arrive in any great number. Some ex citement, however, has been caused by the issue of the official programme, which was first sold to-day. It is very well got up, and is adorned with, inter alia, a capital woodcut of the house in which Shaks pere was born. Besides the announcement of the amusements that are to begin on Saturday, it con tains a description of the local objects of interest, with a short biography of the poet, and other mat ters. But the visitor who is not thoroughly " posted" in the life of Shakapere and its illustra tion by means of the monuments preserved at Strut. ford will do well to provide himself with Chambers's " Tercentenary number," which is not only very complete, but compiled with much critical acumen. It is also perfectly readable, which in the case of a professed " cram book" is remarkable. Of the three Festivals by which Shakapere has already been honoured et Stratford there does not seem to be any complete description withiu the reach of the general public. Some account of these will scarcely be out of place, as a sort of preface to the coming celebration. None of these three jubilees had any reference to the anniversary of Shakspere's birth. The first took place in September, 1769, when the fame of Garrick was at its height, and owed its origin to an atrocity which ardent Shakspereans can only compare with the wilful destruction of the Temple of Ephesus. New-place, the residence of Shaks pere in his latter days, had been purchased of the executors of its last owner, Sir Hugh Clopton (who died in 1751), by a luckless clergyman, named Gastrell, who little thought he was thus taking the first step towards universal execra- tion. The famous mulberry tree, planted by Shaks pere's own hand, flourished in the garden of New. place, and attracted a large concourse of visitors. Annoyed by the intrusion of these devotees, the Rev. Gastrell, who ardently loved quiet, but was singularly mistaken as to the best means of obtain ing it, cut the tree down. It was immediately pur chased by a tradesman, who at once converted it into small fancy articles, and sold them as memo rials of the past. These trinkets were eagerly sought about the middle of last century, and one of the choicest, a handsome carved snuffbox, is now pre served in the room of Shakspere's birthplace, set apart as a museum. As for the Rev. Gastrell, he went on from bad to worse, proceeding from a crime to a blunder. He razed New-place to the ground, but in so doing he in no respect insulted the memory of Shakspere, as in the case of the mulberry tree ; _ - for Sir John Clopton, another Vandal, father to Sir Hugh, had been in the field before him, having pulled down Shakspere's house and built another in its stead. Thus Gastrell was a sort of unwilling Nemesis in the cause of the poet, for, as Ciopton had demolished the house of Stiakspere, so did GAstrell demolish the house of Clopton. The wicked clergy man, however, meant mischief, and therefore is not entitled to the credit of going to perdition on the proverbial pavement of good intentions. Stratford was too hot to hold him,and he fied--probably into infinite space, leaving all rightminded persons to regret that he had not shared the fate of Orpheus and John de Witt. Garrick being the great Shaksperian actor of the day, the corporation of Stratford thought it would be a graceful compliment to send him the freedom of their town in a box made of the dese crated mulbErry tree. The actor, pleased with the compliment, at once formed a scheme fur a grand jubilee, to be held at Stratford, and whon he closed Drury lane in the summer of 1769 he delivered an epilogue, hi which he thus took leave of the audience : "My eyes till then (the next season) no sights like this will see, Unless we meet at Shakspere's Jubilee. On Avon's banks, where flowers eternal blow, Like its full stre4m, our gratitude shall flow. There let us revel, show our fond regard. On that loved spot first breathed our matchless bard, To him all honour, gratitude is due, To him we owe our all--to him and you." This, of course, was intended as an invitation to Stratford, where preparations were soon made for the coming Festival. An amphitheatre, decorated with various devices, was erected on the model of the Ranelagh Rotunda, and was doubtless the origin of the present Pavilion. Transparencies represent ing Shaksperean characters were made for the win dows of the Town-hall ; and as Victor, the chief hissorian of the event, remarks with admirable naivete, "A very small old house, in which this great poet was born, was covered with a curious ,ransparency; the subject was the sun struggling through clouds to enlighten the world in whiCh was figuratively delineated the low circumstances of Shnkspere, from which his strength of genius raised him to become the glory of his country !" A very small house, which looks so humble with its inthll - article, is now the most noted obj , cc in all Warwickshire. The Festival began on the oth of September. Several pieces of cannon rare discharged at day break, and shortly aftPL wards a troop of singers in masquerade habits appeared in the streets with guitars to o p, enade the principal visitors to the Jubilee. At 9 o'clock (people kept early hours in tho' , days) a public breakfast was held at the cown.hall, where Garrick, who acted as steward, and arrived before the company, was presented by the Mayor with a medallion of Shakspere, carved on a piece of the mulberry tree, and richly set iu gold. At hal•past 10 the breakfast being over, the com pany proceeded to the church, where the oratorio of " Judith" was performed under the conuuct of Dr. Arne. From the church everybody went to the Amphitheatre, where an elegant dinner was served for 600 or 700 persons. A ball, which opened soon after 10 o'clock, and a general illumination wound up the firstday, which did not practically terminate till three in the mornitag, On ihe 7th there was another breakfast at the Town-hall, and there was to have been a pageant or procession of Shaksperian characters, but the rain prevented this portion of the entertainment. An ode written by Garrick was delivered in the Amphitheatre, where there was again a dinner at 4 o'clock, the chief delicacy served on the occasion being a turtle of 150 lb. weight. Fiteworks on the other side of the Avon were to have amused the populace, but the rain was not more, merciful to them than it had been to the procession. More suc cessful was a masquerade, which took place in the evening, the most conspicuous figure of which was James Boswell, attired in a C..)rsican habit, with pistols at his belt, a musket at his back, and the words " Paoli and Liberty" inscritied in gold letters on the front of his cap. He intended to deliver a poetical address, but was prevented by the crowd. Indeed, disappointment seems to have been the order of the day at the Stratford Jubilee of 1769. On the Bth there was more breakfasting and dining in the Ampltheitre, but the distinctive feature of the day was a race between five colts, at which "Pratt the groom," who rode his own horse, won a cup worth £5O. Pratt declared his resolution never to part with the prize, though, as he honestly avowed, " he knew very little about plays or Mas ter Shakepere." The night of this third day was fine and the fireworks went off without let or hindrance. This account of the jubilee of 1769 is derived im mediately from " Victor'B History of the Theatres or THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 22, 1864. London," published in 1771, In a minor detail or two it will be round to differ from the summary de scription given in Cassell's official programme issued to-day. The author of the programme gives the third day as that on which the appointed pageant ought to have taken place, whereas Victor gives the second, and he describes the delight of the populace with the fireworks on the second night, w hereas, according to Victor, the heavy rain entirely destroyed that exhibition. Perhaps his account may be more, accurate than mine, but at all events I have given what is deemed excellent authority. A few observations made by Victor at the conclu sion of his description show that the intellect of Warwickshire was in a very depressed state 95 years ago. Now the humbler classes complain that a pageant has not been provided for their amusement, but it was otherwise in the time of Garrick. They looked upon the Jubilee as an impious affair, and regarded the rain that stopped the procession and put out the fireworks as a mark of Heaven's anger. As for Garrick, they firmly believed that he was a magician, who could and would raise the devil, and on this account many of them kept at home during the period of the festival, being afraid to stir abroad. With pyrotechnic art they were utterly unac quainted, and when they saw the black faces of the firework-makers they were inclined to believe they were the very demons with whom the magician had communication. Though in 1769 Stratford lost its pageant, Garrick did mot. On the 14th of 3ctober he brought it out on the stage of Drury -lane in a piece d'occa sion called the "Jubilee," which ran for upwards of 90 nights. The procession included the characters — Benedict, Beatrice, Tou9hstone, Richard 111., Ro meo, Hamlet, Falstaff, Lear, Antony, Portia, Apollo, and the Tragic and Comic Muses, Garrick himself representing Benedict. It is said that in the dia. logue of this piece the superstition of the unedu cated classes of Stratford was ridiculed; but as the piece was never printed, and the manuscript copy was destroyed with Drury Lane in 1809, this state ment cannot easily be confirmed. However, as the piece was revived at Covent Garden in 1816, it is just possible that another manuscript exists some where. If there is such a copy, and the owner will bring it to light, be will contribute no contemptible mite to the literature of Shaksperean Festivals. THE WAR IN DENMARK. (From the Vines Special Correspondent with the Allied Armies.) BROACKER, April 16. The Prussian batteries are lazy this sunny fore noon, Their monotonous thunder is heard at longer intervals than has lately been the case. Yesterday, too, was a comparatively quiet day. This is in dis cord with the recent report that the bombardment was to be continued with redoubled vigour, in com pliance with the supreme injunction that the Danes are to be as much as possible damaged and their powers of defence impaired by the action of the artillery, before the lives of Prussian soldiers are risked in the assault of the entrenchments. It is generally believed here that the assault would already have taken place but for orders received from Berlin to postpone it until it could be made with the least possible loss to the besiegers. Yesterday the fit c seemed, relatively speaking, to be more lively on the left than on the right, so I went in the former direction. The 6-pounder batteries, the first to the north of West Duppel, are distributed in sections of twos, at short distances from each other. They were firing at forts 7 to 9, and between them, at places where they believed Danish troops to be stationed. From these batteries I moved for ward to the advanced posts, and happened to find an acquaintance iu the officer commanding those on that part of the line, and he kindly accompanied me to the best points for seeing the forts, to which we were able to got very near, there being a kind of cartel betwenn the line of pickets on either side nut to fire upon each other. So Prussians and Danes stood or sat in their respective pits about 60 yards apart, and officers visited them, and reliefs came and went, without a shot being fired. It seems, how ever, that the tacit convention was not sufficiently stringent to inspire full confidence. "If thw.:e fel lows fire when wo go forward," said the officer to his second in command as he walked away with us from his picket, " let them have it." But the fellows did not fire, as we advanced, a party of four, to a small trench dug in a field, the rearmost edge of which was covered with straw and tifforded an excellent seat, while in front the earth of the ex cavation had been thrown up into a low parapet. There we sat and chtitted and basked in the sun, and watched the blue -coated Danes standing apathetically at their posts, and had an ex tremely near and good view of the forts, which would have seemed deserted had not a human figure now and then shown itself on their summit or in the embrasures. The earthworks bore abundant marks of shells, heles, and irregularities of surface, but for defensive purpoaes they did not seem to me one bit the worse than when their sides were smooth and their surface level. They appear to be all connected by c overe d ways, with what looks like a regular wall with small embrasures. In front of each fort is a line of posts, connected by strong wires, to impede the advance of the aasault- ing party, which it will hardly do for a moment, since the advancing troops will be provided with the necessary implements to sever the wires. The earthworks are certainly formidable to scale, bat I doubt whether a month's bombardment would render them materially less so, judging from the little effect as yet produced by the heavy fire directed against them. If th ey do rece i ve considerable damage it is evident that such damage is easily re paired. The extremely accurate and destructive fire of the Prussian artillery must destroy men and guns in the forts, but there is reason to believe that the former remain in their bomb-proofs and that most of the latter have been removed. The Danes do not fire from their forts in the day, and, when they do so at night, it has been observed that it is nearly all from one f ort on one n i g ht and all from another fort on the next—now all from No. 2, then all from No. 8, and so on. The Prussians imagine, therefore, that they have a few guns which they move about from one fort to another, hoping so to blind their opponents to the fact of their having withdrawn the greater part of their heavy artillery. It is probable, however, that they will have suffi cient pieces there, when the hour of the assault shall strike, to welcome the storming party with grape, and probably they will also unmask field artillery behind the walls connecting the forte. In short, though mortars and rifled 24's and heavy &ego guns do their worst during the whole time that can be expected possible to elapse between this and the assault, the line of bastions on DuPPel hei g hts will still be an extremely difficult place to storm; and if the Dines stand their ground resolutely, the loss of the Prussians must be heavy. I have heard officers express a h o p e t h at t h e l oss while going over the glacis will n o t b e h eavy, f or they apprehend that if the soldiers sea their friends and comrades falling thickly by their sides they will become so exes perateci thet little quarter will be given, and that there will be no possibility of checking the work of slaughter when once they get into the place. We quitted our post of observation without a shot having b een fi re d a t us, and, while retutning, the commander of the p i c k e t informed us that the courtesy between the outposts was carried to such an extent that Danes and Prussians mutually Sa luted each other's officers when these went down to visit the advanced sentries. Proceeding furtner north, we came to a battery of four 24 pounders. A general had just arrived on a visit to it, and those capital guns were firing briskly, and with wonder ful accuracy, at the Danish redoubt, just to the north of Sonderborg, of which town we obtained a capital north-westerly view. A large white building in the upper part of the town seems to have been gutted by the recent fl_e, at least the windows were gone and the inside looked blackened. The guns in the re doubt, plainly visible, remained mute as shell after shell went plunging into the battery. A small house or farm a little to the Danish right had been set on fire by a shell, and was in flames. We had a good view of Alsen Sand, and distinguished some of the batteries on its opposite shore. Some distance further north another 24 pounder battery was firing across at a gunboat, I was told, lying in an inlet, but which I could not distinguish. Towards the right, as I re turned to West Duppel, I could see the Prussians working at their new parallel, undisturbed by the enemy, who apparently fears to fire by day, on ac count of the storm of shells which is immediately di rected, with an aim that rarely errs, at the embrasure whence his shot issues. At 9 o'clock at night, as I have been informed, the work, suspended at sunset, recommenced, and was continued until 2 a.m., un molested, strange though it seems, by the Danes, until just upon its close. The officers urged their men to silence and speed, reminding them that they were within easy grape range, and that their lives hung upon a hair and depended on ther ex ertions. The soldiers worked with a will and filled their gabions in double-quick time. At last the Danes found it out—incomprehensible is it that they did not sooner do so—and opened a rattling fire of grape, but the work was done and the parallel in a state to brave it. Its nearest point is estimated to be at only 260 paces from the forts, its furthest at 340. This is getting pretty close. It is now said that this parallel, the fourth—reckoning the half parallel as No. 2—will be armed with short twelves smooth bores. Under these circumstances it is impossible to be lieve that the assault will be much longer deferred. I believe that if Prince Frederick Charles had his own way it would take place within 24 hours. It may be doubted whether recent delays will have been altogether as advantageous in the way of diminish ing loss of life as was expected by those who ordered them. It has given the Danes time to bring up their ships. It is not very long, if I rightly remember, since your Sooderborg correspondent mentioned that the Rolf Krake was the only ironclad the Danes had in these parts. Now we have got the Danne brog, which, although she was not in sight yester day, is not likely to have gone very far, and this morning appeared the Skiold line•of-battle ship, and anchored at some distance off Schelde. Persons who observed the Dannebrog through good glasses, when she lay off Alsen, affirm that she is undoubtedly iron-plated. A considerable movement of vessels in the offing was just now reported to me, and it is supposed that some of them are men-of-war. Iron or no iron, it is presumable that when the supreme moment arrives the Danish naval squadron will have to play its part and run its risks. The latter will not be small if it presents itself within range of the batteries that now bristle on the shores and at the entrance of the Yenning B and. APRIL 17. The Prussian fire continued very slack all yester day. During the night it was heavier at intervals. The Dar,e3 fired with some effect at Parallel 2, and I hear that several men were wounded, About 11 p.m. there was some very sharp firing. This morn ing I have scarcely heard a gun ; but it is still early —a sunny, quiet, Sabbath morn, a pleasant change from yesterday, which was windy and bitterly cold with clouds of dust flying. It is impossible to divine the tactics of the Prussian commanders, or why— being now so very close to the forts—they do not redouble their fire, if they hope thereby to render them easier to capture, or else make the assault. If they wait until wet weather comes and the ground gets soaked and slippery it will greatly in crease the difficulties to be overcome by the storm ing party. They can hardly contemplate opening another parallel, or sapping their way up in the the glacis. Something decisive must surely soon occur; everybody is on the qui vive, and there are plenty of persons who tell you most positively that the final attack cannot be delayed beyond such or such a day. lam slow to,hazard predictions which Prussia❑ patience and prudence might falsify. In the latest number of the limes that has reached me I see the announcement, sent from Copenhagen by telegraph, of an" attempted assault on the Dybbol entrenchments." Bastion 8 and the Danish left wing are said to have both been attacked, and both attacks cf course signally failed. It is true that the Danish Commander in•Cnief merely says that both wings had been "alarmed" by the enemy, and the tele graphic agency would have been nearer the mark had it kept to the same statement, instead of sacri ficing truth to sensation headings. I can only again assure you that hitherto there has been no attack whatever upon the Duppel forts with a view to storming them. I see that some papers still talk of the affair of the 28th ult. as if it had been then in tended to assault; but I need hardly point out to you !hit, had such been the case, very different pre parations would have been made, and a powerful f,rce would have been brought up to the front, in stead of only one regiment being there as a reserve o the two sent forward to conquer the ground se quired far the opening of a parallel. The Dance seem to dream of assaults. They may rest assured that, when one does come, it will be a very different sort of business from anything they as yet have seen. A carious adventure happened three nights ago to a company of the 60th Begiment. In the course of some skirmishing that took place it got too far forward, and, when day broke, it found itself in a slight hollow of the ground so near to Forts 1 and 2 that, had it attempted to return to its own lines, it must have been annihilated by the Danish grape. The shelter afforded it by the nature of the ground was so trifling that the men were obliged to lie down flat upon their bellies to avoid being shot by the Danes. In this unpleasant position they remained the whole day. If a man raised his head or arm, or made any other movement from his completely re cumbent posture, the enemy opened fire, and six were wounded in this way, and are now in hospital here. It may seem strange that the Danes did not sally out to make the company prisoners, but by doing so they would have exposed themselves to the fire of the parallels, a►td, moreover, might have brought on a serious conflict, as the Prussians could hardly allow their men to be captured before their eyes without making an effort to prevent it. It was not until 9 or 10 in the evening that the company, with which were a captain and two lieu tenants, succeeded, under cover of the darkness, in rejoining their friends. They had had !nothing to eat the whole time, for, although they had provi sions in their pockets or haversacks, any movement that they made to get at them exposed them to the enemy's fire, Shipbuilding on the Clyde, At no period in the history of shipbuilding on the Clyde has this branch of industry been so brisk as it is at present. Several new building yards have been opened on the banks of the Clyde this year, but nevertheless there is work enough for all. The stimulus thus imparted to the shipbuilding trade is in a great measure to be attributed to the numerous orders which builders have received from private firms and parties for steamers intended for the hazardous work of running the blockade, a stroke of good luck for which cur shipbuilders are indebted to the deplorable war raging in America. As a proof of this activity we may mention that at present there are no fewer than 42 deep-sea steamers being built for blcckade running alone. Of these 15 are building at Glas gow, 4 at Whiteineh, 6 at Renfrew, 6 at Dumbarton, 2 at Port Glasgow, and 9 at Greenock, and averaging their cost at £14,000 each—and this is rather within the mark —we have thus shipping to the value of £588,000, intended for the purpose above mentioned, now in course of construc tion. And this extensive trade is only a part of that which is going on, for there are frigates in process of building for the Turkish Government by Messrs. Robert Napier and Sons; the Cuba and Java, magnificent screws of Macgregor, and Messrs. G. and J. Thomson, for the Cunard line; find a host of other vessels, by other builders, for India, Australia. and almost every part of the world. Towards the close of 1861 and throughout 1862, 30 vessels left the Clyde for the purpose of running the blockade, and including the steamers which have been taken up since (numbering 34), no fewer than 64 steamers have thus left the Clyde for Nassau, the value of which, it is estimated, would be fully £BOO,OOO, making a total (including those now on the stocks) of £1,388,000. Previous to 1863 11 deep-sea steamers started —viz., the Giraffe, Havelock, Leopard, Adele, Herald, Fingal, Tubal Cain, Antona, Thistle, Britannia, and the Princess Royal, six river steamers—viz,, the lona, Kelpie, Eagle, Pearl, Ruby, and Dolphin; and a number of new steamers, including the Queen of the Wave, Wave Queen, Georgians, Memphis, Cornubia, Mino, Amelia, Corinth, Granite City, Ranger, &J. Few of the steamers which left. the Clyde in 1862 and 1863 escaped the Federal men-of-war or the dangers of the ocean, but those which were fortunate enough to evade the blockading squadron have yielded, it is understood, splendid returns to their owners. The follow ing steamers have sailed from the Clyde for blockade running since the beginning of 1863 up till a fortnight age : —Emma, Gertrude, Neptune, Mail, Jupiter, Juno, Lord Clyde, Gem, Diamond, Scotia, Star, Will-o'-the-Wisp, and Caledonia—all of which have been captured,burnt, or sunk. The Georgia, or Japan, which also left the Clyde, is en gaged privateering ; and the following are believed to be still running the blockade, viz, :—Tuskar, Spunkie, Mary Ann, General Mackenzie, Rothesay Castle, Coquette, Elvira, City of Petersburg, Presto, Dare, Wave Queen, Nolu, Flora, Greyhound, Minnie, Julia, Fairy, Tristram Shanda. The lona, which is included in the 34 alluded to, was wrecked on her voyage to Nassau, SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS; POST.—Although we must wait a little longer for the details of the assault and capture of Duppel, we know enough already to form a tolerably accu rate estimate of the nature of the crowning success of the allied armies in Schleswig. The Danish posi tion on the mainland was taken, some 2,000 of the defenders made prisoners, and probably double that number placed hors de combat. That the victory was dearly purchased, the returns from the Prussian camp sufficiently prove; but the loss of the allies, however great, can in no perceptible degree impair the efficiency of their army. The Danes were over whelmed by numbers, and have now to mourn those heavy losses which are inseparable from a re treat conducted under such adverse circumstances as theirs. The Danish Government do not affect to question the severity of the blow which has fallen on them. The bombardment so long and persis tently maintained by the besiegers completely de molished the redoubts on the left of the Danish position, and when the order for assault was given, the troops which defended what was still left of the dismantled fortification were compelled to fall back with great loss. As soon as the redoubts on the left were taken by the assailants the evacuation of those on the right became a necessity. Then com menced a cruel carnage. The greater portion of four Danish regiments was annihilated. The tete de Pont, exposed to the heaviest fire of the Prussian artitlery, was obstinately held by a detachment of the Danish forces, whilst such of the remainder as were able effected their retreat into the Island of Alsen. Finally, the bridge itself was destroyed, and those Danes who still remained on the mainland became prisoners of war. That the retreat was disastrous is only too evident; but the fact that the vanquished were enabled to carry. wits them one hundred dead and eight hundred wounded, wouLl seem to show that it was not ill conducted. The Dames retired when to have remained would have been mae:_ne BB ; but they retired slowly and deliberately, sten fighting with their faces to the enemy. From the latest telegrams we learn that the insulation of the Danish army in Alsen has not put en end to hosti lities. The allies have demanded the evacuation of Sonderburg and the strongly entrenched position in its rear. That is to say, they require the evacua tion of the island. It' the German troops succeed in effecting a landing in Alsen, the Danish army will have no alternative between capitulation and a withdrawal to Zealand or Funen. To abandon Sonderburg and thus afford to the allies the oppor tunity of crossing the Alsen Sound unmolested, would virtually be to deliver up the island. This step, however, the Danes are scarcely prepared to take. It would be idle to suppose that they can for any considerable length of time maintain their present position, but they will doubtless, as in the case of Duppel, retain it as long as they can. Sonderburg will be again bombarded, and the Danish and German artillery will exchange vol!eys across the narrow strait which separates Alsen from the mainland. The Danish positior, however, is strong, and its capture will probably cost the invaders heavier losses and a greater expenditure of time than they at present imagine. The capture of Duppel has at all events enabled the latter to employ elsewhere the forces which have hitherto been engaged in siege operations. Already a considerable portion of the troops has been despatched northwards, with the object of reducing Fredericia and occupying Jut land. If such should be the future plan of the cam paign, it is difficult to see what obstacles the Danes will be enabled to offer to its accomplishment: Fre dericia is by no means as strong es was the position at Duppel, and, with a competitively small garri son, could not hope long to withstand the attack of such a force as their recent success will now enable the allies to employ for its reduction. The wri:' was commenced with the alleged object of securing Ines session of Schleswig as a material guarantee for the fulfilment by Denmark of certain engagements, but now it would seem that Jutland is to be secured es a pledge for the repayment to the German Powers of the heavy expenses occasioned by the war. Proeceding iu this line of argument there is no reason why, before the war isended, the German Powers should not require the sequestration of the entire kingdom of Denmark. TIMES.—The public at large will not enter with very keen interest into the passage of arms between Mr. Sheridan and the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the question as to what reduction of the Fire Insurance Duty would best fit in with the Budget. It is a question that only concerns this year, and any one year is so likely to be disturbed by unex pected causes that a difference of a hundred thousand pounds or two is not felt to be the reel turning point of a financial proposition. Nor, again, is the public at large patriotic enough, and indif ferent enough to personal interest, to enter as it ought into the likelihood of one reduction recover ing itself more than another. On this point, how ever, the House of Commons ought to be, and probably is, disposed to take the financial view of the question. So it accepted Mr. Gladstone's pro position by a decided majority. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has given his usual intensity of con sideration to the subject, and has estimated with almost a painful accuracy the respectively reproduc tive po veers of various degrees of reduction in the duty on the insurance of stock-in-trade. It is a point in which we will not venture to cope with so great a master. We take his estimates on trust, thong: - : we cannot help investing them with a high conjec tural character. Now that the house has decided, and our opiniou cannot be of the least consequence, we will venture to say that we cannot get over the unfairness of distinguishing between houses and stock-in-trade, and that we therefore think a good deal was to be said in favour of Mr. Sheridan's pro posal, always supposing it to square with the rest of the Budget. House property is very heavily taxed, for it pays tax upon tax, and rate upon rate, to the utmost of its endurance. A house is taxed and rated because it is fixed and cannot escape; because its value can be ascertained, and the figures stand in the books for a good many years ; beqause the occupier and ownee can be easily got at and are responsible persons. But eltese are considerations of convenience, not justice. The convenience, too, is financial. A house is easily taxed and rated. The result is inconvenient, for it often leads to the building of a lower clans of houses, instead of a higher, the rates and taxes on the higher class of houses amounting to a second rent. So, when a house pays Property Tax, Inha bited House Duty, Poor Rate, Church Rate, Police Rate, County Rate, and a few other Rates, we could never see why it is to pay the State a further tax of, we will say, 308, a year upon a rental of £5O, because it is insured against fire—that is, because its owner is a little more prudent than his neighbours. There is sometimes a reason more cogent than any that appears, which, neverth e l ess , it i s no t con venient to insist on. We could fancy we detect such a latent, though not less important, motive in Mr. Gladstone's selection of stockain-trade for special indulgence. The agriculturists h ave long ago ob tained the entire remission of their stock-in-trade, on the ground that it was f or t h e i nterest o f t h e public that they should be encouraged to insure against fire, and so balk the malice of the rick« burners. But it is difficult to maintain a line between one description of stock-in-trade and another, and the distinction is a hardship to the trading community. It was half swept away last night, and will probably disappear altogether as soon as the Chancellor of the Exchequer is able to reduce the duty as it affects house property. The whole duty is condem ne d on p r i nc i p l e , an d on l y waits the convenience of the financier. It never had any justification, except that of necessity, which prompted our War Ministers to get at money whenever and wherever they could, and clutch a percentage out of every transaction within the cog nizance of the law. The Chancellor of the Exche quer of those days saw in this instance nothing but a property to be taxed, persons to pay the tax, money passing from hand to hand, the income of the insurer, and the capital of the company. So, stepping in between the parties, he seized a handful of the money on the table, upon no other plea than that it was there and he wanted it. REMARKABLY RAPID PASSAGE OF THE NEW CELINA CLIPPER CARACTACUS.—This vessel, built by Messrs. R. and J. Evans ann Co., and owned by Messrs. E. C. Friend and Co., of this town, and which is commanded by Captain Twins, left this port on the 29th of January last, bound for Shanghae. She experienced very heavy weather and adverse winds for the first week, but on the 29th of February, being the 23d day from leaving Tuskar, she had reached lat. 15 5, long. 33 W, when she spoke the brigantine Chance, from Rio Janeiro for this port. This is one of the quickest passages to the south of the Equator that we remember.—Lzverpool Journal of Commerce. [A D V E RTISEMENT.]—Consumption, all nervous, bilious, liver, and stomach complaints, is every stage, are only ag gravates and accelerated by drugs of every description, but perfectly curable by Du Barry's health restoring Revalenta Arabica Food, as proved by thousands of cases which nad been considered hopeless. We quote a few.—Cure No. 62,914. Miss Lange, 18 years of age, cured after the medical men had abandoned all hopes of her recovery from the last stage of pulmonary consumption, with fearful cough, expectoration, exhaustion, spitting of blood, perspirations, hullow cheeks, emaciated to a skeleton. She is now, thank God, a perfectly healthy, blooming, fleshy girl,—N. Lange, Commissaire Police. Cure, No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, of Friw ley Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafness.—Cure, No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of extreme nervousness, indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fancies.—Cure, Ids, 54,816. Ihe Rev. James T. Cank , ,bell, Fakenham, Norfolk, of indigestion and t orp i d i ty of the liver, wh i ch had resisted all medical reatment. In tins, 11b, 2s 9d ; 21b, 4s 6d; 51b, 110; 121 b, 225; 241 b, 40s. Barry du Barry and Cu., No. 77, Regent-street, London ; also Fortnum and Mason; and all grocers and chemists is every town of the United Kingdom. HEALTH OF THE METROPOLIS. (From the Registrar-General's Weekly Return.) The number <4 deaths in London in the week that end on Saturday was 1,523, of which 765 occurred under 2.1! years of age, 447 at 20 Etvd under 60 years, and 295 itt .. 7 years of age and upwards. The average number in the lb week of ten years 1854-63 is, with a correction for ineress.. of population, 1,364. The rate of mortality i s therefore still high for the season, the actual number of deaths exceeding by 159 the number calculated on past experience. , Nineteen deaths were referred to small - Pox , 55 to niessiegl 41 to scarlatina, 13 to diphtheria, 60 to who:Ting- cough; d• 59 to typhus. Six children died of measles in t he I Callaing i. ton let sub-district. In the Green sub-district of Bethaa green, there were 3 deaths from measles, 2 from sc arlatina 2 from diphtheria,and 2 from typhus ; in the town stlb-dir, trict there were five deaths from scarlatina. An ew There were five deaths from injury by horse °anvil— to Seven persons died at the age of 90 years and upw a r ds ' oldest of whom were two widows at tue age of 95 years',,, Four children died of scarlatina in one family at Townshend-road, Marylebone, three on the 10th and ale' on the 11th inst. A labourer,:aged 50 years, died in St. Luke's Workhouses on the 17th of March, of "typhus with destitution." the A watch finisher, aged 68 years, was found dead on 34 instant at 22, Lower Northamptwa-street, Clerkensvell' from effusion on the brain, accelerated by want of food- Last week the births of 1,039 b o y s an d 933 girls , in a 1,972 children, were registered in London. In the ten cor responding weeks of the years 1864-63 the average Ilanibelr (corrected) was 2,029. METROPOLITAN WATERS IN MARCH, 1864. the The waters of London d ur i ng M arc h, a ccording t° e analyses of Dr. Rob er t D un d as Th omson , F. 11, 6" b u i Bl ; been much more impure th an i n th e p re ceding tilt( o especially in reference to the amount of matters of on origin which they c on t a i n . Th ese h ave b e en ol?vi °11 washed down by the r a i ns f rom t h e sur fa ce d r ainage; 413 ; is found that after h eavy ra i n d ra i ns an d sewers are fiasheut and these deposits carried into the rivers which receive their ~, u rfa. l l. For the sake of com p ar i son th e com position of , we ll i,:4 given containing much sewage. is Total impurity Orgy per gallon. Pu r r Sg. gra. or deg. 8 11 1. 0 Distilled Water O .O Loch Katrine water, new supply .60 3 to Glasgow 2'35 .68 0 Manchester water supply Well, Newton, Wi s beach 8514 THAMES COMPANIES. 2. 56 Southwark Lambeth Grand Junction 22.08 3' 20 West Middlesex 2,41 30 1 Chelsea OTHER COMPANIES. 91 8 Kent East London New River The table is read thus—Loch K a t r i ne wa ter contains 11 4 0 , gallon 2'3. degrees or grains of f ore i gn m atter in sol ti of which .605 degrees or grains are of vegetable or aim origin. ht At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the me= '' ; ',„e of the barometer in the w ee k was 29.800 i n, The read was 30.05 in on Sunday, and fell to 29.54 in on Fridal• mean temperature of the air in th e wee k was 48'9 deg, w bi nf e s is 3.6 deg above the av erage o f th e same wee k in 4 3 y ear (as determined by M r . Gl a i s h er ). O n t h ree d a ys the /33:9.. daily temperature w as from 6 deg to 8 deg above thei;led.. rage. The lowest night te m p era t ure was 33.4 deg. oil• nesday. The highest d a y t em p era t ure was 68.5 deg °n The day. The range in th e wee k was th ere f ore 35.1 deg- e , b , mean daily range was 18 . 5 deg. The difference betvieel mean dew-point temperature and air temperature w as I , deg. The mean degree of humidity of the air was 7 6 ' 00 ; 3 ; pieta saturation being repr esen t e d by 100, which point nearly approached on S a t ur d a y, th oug h on th e day Pre vi he the humidity had falle n t o 61. Th e genera l di r ection of sdgYa _ wind was northerly, on th e fi rs t th ree d a y s; Wedlle and Thursday it was east, and afterwards south-east he south-west. The rain i n th e wee k was on l y 0.06 illch'L e o mean of the highe s t temp e r a t ures o f th e water o f the TII‘" was 51.2 deg ; that of the lowest 48•1 deg. COUNTRY NARK TS. BIRMINGHAM—THURSDAY. 'Bl l There was a good supply of wheat to-day, and ..- ,111 , 1 0 .. sorts met a dull sale, at Is per qr decline on previous . - e d, tations. Foreign whe3t is 6d cheaper. Barley tios ite j . - 01. Oats and beans rather advanced in price. Peas ruled 36g —English wheat was sold at 40s to 46a for white, an d ~ to 433 per 36 stone for red. Barley, new malting', 'so 38s per qr; grinding, 24s to 28s Oats, old, 22a to r. per 30 stone; Irish, 18s to 245. Beans, 34s to 40a POI Peas, 32s to 42s per 36 stone. BURTON. ON -TREN T—THIMSDAT. 0 16 A good show of grain at our market, a n d prices 5ve, r ,..,4 per qr lower, but a dull demand. Oats brisk, and P' .-- tully maintained late rates. t 3 0 Old white wheat..42s t o 45 s I OM red wheat, ~.il° -° 4 00 New do. . 41s to 45s I New do. 36s to 4_ Malting barley....32s to 36s I Oats. 1 9 s to 2.00 Grinding d0.....27s to 30s I /Jeans 3 68 to 4'14 MANCHESTER—THURSDAY. A very slender attendance at our market to-day, 9 , e English wheat met with a limited sale, at is per cheaper, while foreign was neglected, at 2d per cents' duction. Flour a very slow sate, and prices about non:1 11 '7 1 Oats and oatmeal were steady. English beans the tar o higher in value, but Egyptian were unaltered. Indian C easier to purchase, BRISTOL—THTJRSDAY. and . flt English wheat iu moderate supply this morning' et about the currency of this d a y wee k. Foreign M firlDi au exceedingly slow demand. Fi ne malting barIGY grinding sorts in limit e d sa l e , an d a t about forme r ra scarce,ts Oats ce, and late prices were maintained . For 11181 e very little inquiry. Beans and pe as no inquiry. wit.! EDINBURGH GRAIN--APRIL 20. To. day there was a f a i r su pply o f w h ea t ; which met 6 slow sale at about last week's prices. Wheat on the top Is Od up ..average is 3d UP' Barley on the top is 6d down v • Oats on the top is 6d dow n .... average e Os 2d 2 5 d d u l l : Beans on the top Ca 6d up..., average Os 2ci UP' Avei age Prices 20S 64 Wheat., - 91 33d Barley 3ls 4d 1 Beans Total Supply and Sales. Wheat .. 884 qrs Sold 637 qrs Barley... 647 qrs.. Oats Beans 305 qrs Flour sells as follows :—Whites, 39a S O SS l ll ; ddd e l x 243 t 6B3 r 946 as qqq : rr3s:l3 °a ; superfine, 358 Od ; fine, 33s Od. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS.D UR. s t. s , 19' Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton...... • May 13. via Marseilles ... MO 4. Brazil and Cape Verds, by British packet .WY 2g. ' Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.. A-Pr il China, Penang, and Singapore, v i a Southampton.lklaY fl 2 q6 . via Marseilles ... li-P r ' Falkland Islands .l 2 6 ' Gibraltar, via Southampton Apri l India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton lua -,• 9 20. via Marseilles AP° 0 India (Bombay), via Southampton Ar i l O. via Marseilles Apr.. P0rtuga1.......... Malta, _Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Apr , ' 21, Newfoundland via Marseilles / Mg ' A-P ril l 1. Oporto and Vigo .. O. U . S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet APril by U.S. packet .. • by Canadian packet APT I ., W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe ApT)+ .s, Bahamas, via New York NS $ Mexico.. All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, Ap ril 2 California. and British Columbia.. - Persona who have been in the habit of paying sven' o o burrowers of Sewing Machines will do well to apply ate and become members of Messrs. Watts and Co.'s S e " t he Machine Clubs. By so doing they will not only lo ve eini e money they now foolishly throw away, but at the saute tad secure to themselves the pos sess i on of one of the best most celebrated sewing machines in the world. Ever/ formation given on application ; or by letter addressed , t , a stamped envelope, to M essrs . W a tt s an d C o., 12, 13eaufc,f buildings, Strand, London, W.C., w h ere mew rs are -ji, rolled daily between 10 and 4 ; Saturdays, t 0 aim; Births. # at/ HANDCOCK—OR the 19th inst., at 14, Dawson -6 ' r- Dublin, the Hon. Mrs. Handeoek, of a son. HILL—Oa the 21st inst., at Bayswater, the wife of Ge° ll4 Hill, Esq., of a son. 0 0 POCHIN—At Braunstone Houso, near Leicester, the -1 4 of Ralph George Pochin, E,q., of a son. tOo YATEs.--On the ISth inst., at Colney Vicarage, fifertke wile of Lieut.-Colonel H. Peel Yates, of daughter. Marriages. BOLTON—IRELAND — On the 20th inst., at Saint George'' H a nov e r-square, Richard Geor ge Bolton, Esq. late ly the Royal Horse Guards (Blue), to Beatrice,third'daug ter of toe late Thomas Jame s I re l an d, Esq o f Onsd em Hall; Suffolk. EvERsuED—FIELD ---On the 20th inst , a t the f Royal, rower of L on d on , Arthur inst. E'q ' b ° o Ampthill, Bedfordshi re , to Mary Hester Kathari ne, . eldest daughter of H enr y t W. Field, Esq., of her MN ty's Mint. ° Esq., aged D 7 e 7 a . ths. HARRISON—Onthe 20th inst., at Braintree, Essex, /61311 fa i l . / HEMPSON —Oa the 17th i ns t , at Derby-street, I da Y Mr. P. Hempson, M.R.C.V.S., aged 30. MILLS—On the 19th M arc h, at 29, Theatre-road, Calc utta ' e g the Hon. H enry Mill s , Q.C., one of her Majesty's Judgu of the High Court, and one of the Masters o f the Beac of the Hon. Society of the Middle Temple, MONTGOMERIE-011 the 19th inst., at St. Leollard'S9ll° Ayro lvret Sea, Robert Montgomerie, of Craig House, aged 75. a rd iiOGIElt —On the 20th inst., at Surbitott, Lieut. B-" Rcgier, R.N., aged 65. fi ld SEABROOK—Oa the 20th lust ,at Old Lodge, Spring- e / aged 45. John A. Seabrook, Esq., aged 22. SCUDA3IORE—On the 18th inst., at 6, Lady Scudam o re, aged 80. lirini_polestreet, .4ondon: Pr:xi - Led and I'Tb:felled by WILLIA3I ANDIt E ;VS. of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TuE Su; Office 02, Strand, In the Precinct of the 3aroy, u the Counl of Arril 22, 1864.